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   a·pol·o·get·ic

   /əˌpäləˈjedik/

   adjective

   • 1. regretfully acknowledging or excusing an offense or failure: "she was very apologetic about the whole incident"
   • ▪ of the nature of a formal defense or justification of something such as a theory or religious doctrine: "the apologetic proposition that production for profit is the same thing as production for need"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun denoting a formal justification): from French apologétique or late Latin apologeticus, from Greek apologētikos, from apologeisthei ‘speak in one's own defense’, from apologia (see apology). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.

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